Jennifer Aniston knocks Vance over 'childless cat ladies' remark

Jennifer Aniston, who's been open about her fertility struggles, is ripping Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance for his previous remarks dubbing Vice President Harris one of several "childless cat ladies" in Washington.

"I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States," the former "Friends" star wrote on her Instagram Story on Wednesday. The post from Aniston was written above a 2021 clip of Vance appearing on Tucker Carlson's now-defunct Fox News show. 

"We're effectively run in this country — via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs — by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too," Vance, then a GOP Ohio Senate candidate, told Carlson.

"You look at Kamala Harris, [Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg, [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)]: The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?" Vance said in the resurfaced segment. 

Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is a stepmother to husband Doug Emhoff's adult children. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, announced the birth of their twins in September 2021. 

In her social media post, Aniston shared a message with her nearly 45 million Instagram followers directed at Vance: "I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day. I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option."

"Because you are trying to take that away from her, too," Aniston, 55, said. 

In a 2022 interview, the Emmy Award winner said that she tried to get pregnant for several years and underwent unsuccessful rounds of in vitro fertilization.

"It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road," she told Allure magazine. 

During his Senate bid, Vance expressed support for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and for Texas's ban on abortion.

In June, Senate Republicans blocked legislation that would establish a national right to IVF and other assisted reproductive technology.